| Re: FTPro to Search Journal Citations - Some Thoughts [message #470 is a reply to message #429] |
Mon, 06 February 2017 23:26   |
elviades
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I have also some interesting absurd properties with Foxtro pro. Indexing
two identical files (duplicates), one of them ranks higher, the other one
ranks about 10 steps lower. I don't know what is happening.
But, the proximity searches in Foxtrot are much cleaner than Devonthink.
The slides are very useful too.
On Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 3:09:47 PM UTC+2, Jeffrey Weimer wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I am test driving FTPro to search in PDF journal articles. I want to note
> some of my initial findings for anyone so interested.
>
> I am comparing FTPro to Papers. FWIW, I also use Mendeley. Its search
> engine is only useful to do a quick-and-dirty finding. I've also tested
> EndNote and generally found it too cumbersome (and way too costly for its
> feature set).
>
> I did a test run on my library database. For this specific case, I did a
> search on the terms:
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> --> Papers: all:chlorosilane AND all:glass
> --> FTPro: *chlorosilane, glass
>
> Papers returns a set of 16 results with significance ranking.
> Interestingly, it does NOT find articles where the terms are in the titles
> (this is something I've asked about on the Papers support sight).
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> By comparison, FTPro returns 7-19 items in the "around one line" search
> and 75 in the broadest search (it has 0 items at "next to"). In the
> "around one line" search, it returns the article with the terms in the
> title. I can see immediately the phrase that uses the terms.
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> I would note one odd behavior. When I adjust the slider and redo the
> search for "around one line", I get different return results randomly.
> Sometimes I get 7 hits, sometimes I get 19 hits.
>
> As a final note, I would add that I've compared DevonThinkPro as well. For
> my needs, I find FTPro to be cleaner in its UI, have a more intuitive
> approach to searching, and return more useful results.
>
> Hope this helps anyone who is also comparing FTPro vs a dedicated citation
> manager (and vs DTP).
>
> --
> JJW
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